The Associated Press has decided to participate in the old joke about the Washington Post headline: “World Ends Tomorrow – Women and Children Hurt Most!”
They have an article about Blacks and Latinos using the internet enabled smartphones more than Whites – but using them for social media instead of work related, or looking for work! (Pew Research)
It’s the new “Digital Divide”
Further, a study by danah boyd (yes, lower case) a ”social media researcher for Microsoft and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society” found that in 2007-2008 White teens abandoned MySpace because it was too “ghetto,” and fled to Facebook, in a White Flight syndrome representing both race and class.
Who knew?
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16036/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=aXGNTHDK
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